The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters - Couverture souple

Kolodny, Annette

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807841188 ISBN 13 : 9780807841181

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1984

Synopsis

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Annette Kolodny is former Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860. She currently teaches courses on ecocriticism and the American frontiers at the University of Arizona.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807841188
• ISBN 13: 9780807841181
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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